/bookmarks/row-over-torture-on-french-tv Old hat experiment done many times inc. BBC1 last year. A classic psychological research paper and the phenomenon is fairly well understood and observed in many awful incidents around the world before and since. So really, this is a furore about something we all know about - the ability for a lot of people to do awful things to each other on command in in the right environment. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:15:10 +0000 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:15:10 +0000 en-uk